| Io Saturnalia! |
[19 December, 2007] |
Greetings of the season to my friends online.
I am still passionate about calligraphy. In the last few months I have begun to use a quill pen – magic.
I bought my first quill ready-made from Cornelissens’, the best art shop in London. In the last few weeks I have started making my own – our local farm shop has been most generous with turkey wing feathers – but I don’t think I have the manufacturing process totally licked just yet. It’s something to go on playing with in the New Year.
The first line of the inscription was written with a reed pen (also bought from Cornelissens’) but though it is the authentic instrument for the script, it was a bit of a pig to write with; not like the quill, which is wonderfully responsive.
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